Maya Angelou Lonely Quotations

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.